Or go direct to images: http://www.thetyee.ca/gallery/2009/01/19/EcoMetropolitanism/index.html

These photoshop skills are very bad. I would say old school for sure.

I would guess its intentionally 'bad' .... which for me is refreshing in the hyper rendered world

Its always good to see if an idea holds up after the gloss has been stripped out.

Looks like a bad copy of DS+R/LTL style.

they do seem to make the point well, and that's good...

but other than that, there is not much to talk about...

I've always like a combination of hand-drawn and computer-drawn or photographed elements. Especially for a conceptual presentation - looks less final.

I like the combination of hand and computer too, but I like the idea of ubiquitous plant life so much that I prefer images that better communicate it to more people. The purposely old school look probably doesn't publicize the concept as well as more realistic images like these:

http://www.krobarch.com/images/entryImages/entry549.jpg
http://www.krobarch.com/images/entryImages/entry541.jpg

First ones look kinda yucky to me - flat, not any contrast or depth, perspectives are off (fine that you want that, but I don't like it, looks lazy to me).

Those last ones are nicer.

I, too, love the combination of hand drawn/collage/etc, but I prefer a warm and rich look (the entry549.jpg was nice - not too real, but nice depth, warmth, contrast, etc.).

sorry. the images i posted were found on the krob delineation competition website:

http://www.krobarch.com/

The artist was Aleksander (Olek) Novak-Zemplinski:

http://www.biolinia.com/

Does anyone have an opinion on why it didn't win best of show?

it's okay, i guess, but if you're really into architectural sketches, these guys rule!

olek has some nice work...

n400, i was in the KRob jury and those images were high contenders all the way to the end.
we had to select one of the two for the category award and i opted for the first one, a tie breaker of the three people jury. i think they are very similar as a technique.
the winner of the show was neither one. we selected the winner because it had a new type of energy instead of depicting/rendering a building. it was more like a rendering of a conceptual visualization. breaking away from;
typical rendering->building/city block->presentation to real estate types, triangle.... something like that... at the end it was not about selecting a rendering technique but more so what was rendered...
but those two drawings, which were really well done as illustrations, definitely were best in their class.
exaggerated greenery.;.))

i blogged it here with a link to competition site;
http://elseplace.blogspot.com/2008/11/krob.html